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Exposing "Secrets Worth Knowing" In The Early Republic: Robert R. Henry's Papers As A Problem In Documentary Research, Robert Scott Davis Jr.

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

The "Journal of Archibald Clark" proved to be the papers of Robert R. Henry. They document Henry's 1820s political crusade in Georgia, New York, and Washington to replace Clark as the port master at St. Marys, Georgia. Henry meticulously recorded his thoughts and actions in what he eventually left as a memoir to his descendants. He even saw ammunition for his causes in documents critical of his efforts, which he copied without obvious prejudice. These papers provide an extremely rare documented case study of political activism of the period.

Churchill-Reves Correspondence : Review Of Winston Churchill And Emery Reves: Correspondence, 1937-1964, Ed. With An Introduction And Notes By Martin Gilbert., Roger Adelson

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

Martin Gilbert, the official biographer of Winston Churchill and editor of his papers since 1968, has added another volume to his extraordinary documentation of the British statesman's life and career. In the mid-1990s, this historian at Merton College, Oxford, was knighted for completing the official biography, which was started by Churchill's son in the early 1960s. When Randolph Churchill died, the holder of the copyright asked Gilbert, then one of Randolph's research assistants, to continue the official biography along the lines that had already been established by the family and the British and U.S. publishers. The first two volumes, Youth, …

Recent Editions--September 1998

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

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1998 Ade Contributors: Ade Sustaining, Patron, And Life Members

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

The Association for Documentary Editing thanks its contributors and its sustaining, patron, and life members. Those whose dues or contributions were received by 15 August 1998 are listed below.

Association For Documentary Editing Council--Ade Committees 1997-1998

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

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So You Think You Need A Web Page? Designing World Wide Web Access To Documentary Editing Projects, Cathy Moran Hajo

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

The World Wide Web is rapidly becoming the first place that researchers and the curious look when they are interested in a topic. For those with access, Internet searches using Web browsers can rapidly open a door to a vast storehouse of knowledge and information. Everyone and her brother seems to have a web page, whether for selling widgets, advertising a conference, or just telling you who they are and what they like to do. Wading through this virtual forest to find the gems can occupy hours, even days, with no guarantee that the information you find on the Web …

From The Archives--Ade Minutes Of Founding Meeting

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

The following document was provided by Harriet Simon from the archives of the Association. It has been transcribed literally, except that original line spacing, line breaks, and indentions have not been retained. The original document was typed double-spaced on four pages and includes the signature of the first secretary-treasurer, Charlene Bickford. This transcription was prepared from a photocopy.

Documentary Editing, Volume 20, Number 2, June 1998.

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

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Documentary Editing, Volume 20, Number 2, June 1998--Front Matter

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Cover--Publication Information Page

On Editing Hemingway Badly Or Not At All: Cautionary Reflections, Susan F. Beegel

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

The archivally correct cardboard boxes of the Hemingway Collection pulse with energy. Hemingway's estate included at his death nearly twenty thousand pages of holograph, typescript, carbon, and proof. Those pages make up more than eight hundred manuscripts of published and unpublished work, and vividly show the composition process of twentieth-century American literature's most influential prose stylist. They represent as well one of the last and finest opportunities to study the composition process itself, now that the delete key has arrived to send all false starts, alternative endings, errors, and omissions into the ether, and to cloak the writer's additions and …

Transcribing And Translating Early Nineteenth Century Moravian Missionary Diaries, Rowena Mcclinton

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

This paper illuminates the importance of the Moravian Archives as a major repository for the study of Cherokee culture, missionary contributions to the understanding of Native history, the editorial approaches taken to render the best textual treatment of the documents, and the overall significance of the documents as they relate to Cherokee culture.

Are Religious Records Different?, Robert J. Cain

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

Are religious records different?" It depends. The answer must take into account such basic historical considerations as time, place, circumstances, and personalities. This much, as least, is common to "religious" and "secular" records.

Recent Editions--June 1998

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

"Recent Editions" attempts to provide an up-to-date, annotated bibliography of all scholarly editions of documents in the fields of English and American history, literature, and culture, starting with those published in 1992. The bibliography is generally restricted to works edited from manuscript, but other noteworthy books received may be listed.

Association For Documentary Editing Council--Ade Committees 1997-1998

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The Association For Documentary Editing Annual Meeting, October 8-10, 1998, Marriott Pavilion, St. Louis, Missouri

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Includes meeting program

The Ernest Hemingway Collection At The John F. Kennedy Library, Stephen Plotkin

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

For the ADE meeting last October, I was asked to comment on the Hemingway Collection from the perspective of an archivist and a curator. The trouble is, the Hemingway Collection is, at this point, thoroughly uninteresting-archivally speaking. Basic concepts of archival theory such as provenance or original order, respect du fonds, apply either trivially (we know precisefly where these papers came from) or not at all (these papers never had an original order). In terms of archival practice, the Hemingway Collection at one time posed a genuine challenge, simply because it did lack any order. The first curator, Jo August …

In Memoriam, Arthur Stanley Link, 1920-1998

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

Arthur Stanley Link, Director and Editor of the Papers of Woodrow Wilson Emeritus and George Henry Davis '08 Professor of American History Emeritus at Princeton University, died on March 26 at the Bermuda Village Health Center in Advance, North Carolina. The cause of death was lung cancer; he was seventy-seven years old. Link was one of the founders and the first president of the Association for Documentary Editing, 1979-80, and remained an enthusiastic supporter and adviser to subsequent officers of the ADE as well as to editors of the many projects which have developed under its aegis over the years.

A Northerner Transformed : Review Of The Fire Of Liberty In Their Hearts: The Diary Of Jacob E. Yoder Of The Freedmen's Bureau School Lynchburg, Virginia, 1866-1870. Samuel L. Horst, Ed., James H. Cook

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

It is hard to believe that ten years have passed since the publication of Eric Foner's magnum opus, Reconstruction: America} Unfinished Revolution, 1863- 1877. It seems like only yesterday that the historical profession first encountered what is now considered the definitive history of the postbellum era in the United States~ The main reason for this temporal illusion, of course, is that scholars have offered little or no revision of the main story Foner offered in 1988. Indeed, the book seems destined to go the route of C. Vann Woodward's monumental work, Origins of the New South, which survived unscathed for …

Documentary Editing, Volume 20, Number 1, March 1998.

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

No abstract provided.

Documentary Editing, Volume 20, Number 1, March 1998--Front Matter

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Cover--Publication Information Page

1997 Ade Meeting Resolutions

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

Resolution of thanks to the organization of American Historians--Resolution of thanks to the American Historical Association--Resolution of thanks to Supporters of NHPRC Recommendation--A Resolution in Memory of George C. Rogers, Jr., 1922-1997--A Resolution in Memory of John Nives, 1921-1997

The Ade Annual Meeting Sessions, Boston, Massachusetts, October 1997

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

Joys and Horrors of Editing Scientists and Scientific Philosophers (Chair: Nathan Houser)--Forum on Federal Spending (Chair: Herman Saatkamp)--What Documentary Editions Can Tell Us and What They Cannot (Chair: Beverly Wilson Palmer)--Editors on the Web (Chair: Esther Katz)--Curating and Editing Ernest Hemingway (Chair: J. A. Leo Lemay) --Are Religious Records Different? Types, Transcriptions, Translations (Chair: Maureen Ursenbach Beecher) --The Epistemology of the Electronic Text (Chair: Julia Flander)

In Memoriam, Lillian B. Miller, 1923-1997

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

Lillian B. Miller, editor of the Peale Family Papers and Historian of American Culture at the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, died of a cerebral hemorrhage on 27 November 1997.

Minutes Of The Ade Annual Business Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, 16 October 1997

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Secretary's Report--Treasurer's Report--Committee Reports--New Business

In Memoriam, Hanna M. Bercovitch

Recent Editions--March 1998

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

"Recent Editions" attempts to provide an up-to-date, annotated bibliography of all scholarly editions of documents in the fields of English and American history, literature, and culture, starting with those published in 1992. The bibliography is generally restricted to works edited from manuscript, but other noteworthy books received may be listed.

Lyman H. Butterfield Award--1997

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

The 1997 Lyman H. Butterfield Award was presented to the Massachusetts Historical Society at the annual meeting of the Association. It was accepted by Louis L. Tucker. Ann Gordon made the presentation on behalf of the Association.

Margaret Fuller's Silences, Robert N. Hudspeth

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

Silences are editors' bad luck: someone before us loses the evidence; our subject outsmarts us and refuses to say what we want most to hear from her; we ask questions she never even thought to answer. Let me make up some biographical conclusions from my reading of Margaret Fuller's letters: first, she had no interest in radical abolitionism or even in more moderate antislavery efforts in New England. Second, she almost never read and cared nothing for Charles Dickens, the most popular writer of his time. Third, she never rode the horse trolleys in New York City during her twenty-month …

John Adams: On Paper And In Person, Gregg L. Lint

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

In 1774 John Adams was a thirty-nine-year-old Massachusetts lawyer of modest means, middling height, and portly physique, who was ambitious, argumentative, over-earnest, direct to the point of rudeness, and intolerant of fools. How did this man, seemingly unsympathetic and ordinary when compared to George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin, become by 1776 Congress's most influential member? Why was he named president of the Board of War and appointed to the committees that drafted the Treaty Plan of 1776 and the Declaration of Independence? Why was he then chosen to serve as a diplomat in Europe and later elected vice …

What About That Twenty-Year Gap?, Carolyn De Swarte Gifford

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

What is the twenty-year gap? There are no journal volumes from fall 1870 until January 1893. After filling more than forty volumes-nearly five thousand pages detailing her life from her fifteenth through her thirty-first years, Frances E. Willard suddenly stopped keeping a journal. On her thirty-first birthday, 28 September 1870, she wrote: "[M]y Journal has this day been shaken hands with in a long adieu, and I here record my purpose to write no more wishy-washy pages of personal reminiscence." Then, just as suddenly, on New Year's Day 1893 she took up her journal again. "It is now over 20 …

Ade Treasurer's Report, Fiscal Year 1996-97

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Income--Expenses--Guide to Documentary Editing Revision Project--Julian P. Boyd Award Fund--Jo Ann Boydston Award Fund